Sunday, February 28, 2010

El Consell y Wisekey preparan un foro empresarial

El Consell y Wisekey preparan un foro empresarial para atraer capitales Inversores suizos contactan con Sánchez de León y Rambla para articular el polo tecnológico




Carlos Moreira, presidente y fundador de Wisekey. levante-emv
VÍCTOR ROMERO VALENCIA Parece que esta vez va en serio. La propuesta impulsada por la empresa suiza de seguridad informática Wisekey de crear un "hub" o polo tecnológico en Valencia e introducir a la ciudad en el circuito de cumbres empresariales (a través del World Economic Forum) ha comenzado a tomar forma. El presidente de la empresa patrocinadora del Alinghi, Carlos Moreira, ha iniciado contactos de alto nivel con el vicepresidente primero y conseller de Industria, Vicente Rambla, y con la consellera de Justicia y Administraciones Públicas, Paula Sánchez de León, para articular jurídicamente el germen del polo tecnológico. Todo indica que la fórmula inicial será la creación de una fundación con un partenariado compuesto básicamente de entidades privadas que se encargará de lanzar el proyecto de atracción de proyectos tecnológicos y participar a su vez en la organización de un foro internacional de emprendedores.

La empresa organizadora del Foro de Davos, Publicis Live, que dirige John Rossant se encargará de articular este encuentro de alto nivel e incorporarlo el circuito internacional del World Economic Forum. El anuncio oficial de la cumbre de Valencia podría producirse en el marco de un foro similar que tendrá lugar en abril en Cartagena de Indias.

Según fuentes conocedoras del proyecto, la idea es tratar de atraer a Valencia fondos de capital riesgo e inversores internacionales y ponerlos en contacto con emprendedores locales en proyectos de innovación. A la vez, la cumbre serviría de plataforma para la presentación de proyectos de empresarios extranjeros y multinacionales para mantener la política de posicionamiento internacional de Valencia, toda vez que la America's Cup parece que lleva rumbo a Estados Unidos. "Se trata de una extensión de la mesa redonda que ya organizamos la semana pasada y queremos que sea una realidad antes de un año", sostienen fuentes de Wisekey.


Buscar estrategias
El objetivo es tratar de buscar estrategias para rentabilizar los grandes eventos una vez estos se han producido, como es el caso de la America's Cup. En esta misión están trabajando ya en Brasil. Río de Janeiro acogerá los Juegos Olímpicos de 2016 y el país que gobierna Luiz Inacio da Silva "Lula" estudia cómo aprovechar los efectos posteriores a los Juegos. El magnate brasileño, Mario Garnero, presidente de Brasilinvest y el Foro de la America's, ha invitado al jefe del Consell, Francisco Camps, ha conocer cómo está organizando Río los Juegos y la estrategias posteriores. Garnero es socio de Wisekey en Latinoamérica.

La empresa suiza de seguridad informática tiene previsto además abrir una delegación en Valencia y ya se ha puesto en contacto con empresarios valencianos como Carlos Turro de Cleop o Tissat, también centrada en la gestión de servicios de tecnología de la información. Wisekey quiere impulsar un "data center" o centro de datos desde el que ofrecer sus servicios. En su punto de mira están los servicios informáticos de salud, los procesos de identificación personal para gestiones administrativas o los ligados al deporte, para los que ya ha contactado con el Valencia CF.

Recortes del Gobierno en innovación

El vicepresidente primero y conseller de Industria, Comercio e Innovación, Vicente Rambla, criticó el recorte presupuestario "llevado a cabo por el Gobierno Central en programas destinados al fomento de la innovación empresarial". En un comunicado, Rambla se refirió al anuncio del Ministerio de Industria de reducir en "casi un 10%" los fondos que transfiere a la Comunitat Valenciana para el programa Innoempresa, un programa cofinanciado entre el Ministerio de Industria y la Generalitat. Este programa está dirigido a pymes para que desarrollen "proyectos de innovación especialmente en el ámbito de lo no tecnológico". levante-emv valencia

Bajo iniciativa de WISeKey, la región valenciana se transforma en un centro tecnológico del Mediterráneo

Bajo iniciativa de WISeKey, la región valenciana se transforma en un centro tecnológico del Mediterráneo



GINEBRA, Suissa y VALENCIA, España, February 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Con el fomento de WISeKey, empresa líder en seguridad en internet e identidad digital, el gobierno de Valencia ha sentado los cimientos para transformar la región en el "hub" o centro tecnológico del Mediterráneo.

El propósito de este hub es promover el desarrollo económico, social, cultural y medio ambiental para alcanzar el nivel internacional a través del saber-hacer de los Institutos Tecnológicos de la región.

Con el apoyo financiero de algunas de las figuras claves en el sector privado de Suiza, Brasil, Estados Unidos y España, y en cooperación con el sector público español, este epicentro tecnológico no sólo acelerará el ciclo temporal de lanzamiento al mercado de innovaciones, sino que también ayudará al desarrollo de iniciativas y de los valores de seguridad, financieros, educacionales y sanitarios de la Región.

El futuro Hub combinará infraestructuras físicas - en particular las del puerto de Valencia, que han probado su valor en las dos últimas ediciones de la Copa América de vela así como en varias competiciones de Fórmula 1 - con infraestructuras dinámicas de trabajo provenientes de industrias de alta tecnología.

La llave de los ciudadanos

Especialmente consciente de este reto económico para la Región, las autoridades de Valencia han adoptado el concepto de la llave del ciudadado desarrollado por WISeKey. Esta llave USB biométrica, con identificación digital, distribuida gratuitamente a los ciudadanos valencianos, permitirá acceder de forma simple y con total seguridad a servicios online que serán puestos a disposición por los socios regionales tales como la administración pública, bancos, oficinas de empleo, protección al ciudadano, redes sociales, vida cultural, eventos, etc. Servicios especiales para sectores específicos de la población (niños, mujeres, tercera edad) están en estudio actualmente.



Para mas información visite: http://valencia.wisekey.com/

Saturday, January 09, 2010

WISeKey and Alinghi: Technology Leadership Made In Switzerland


WISeKey and Alinghi: Technology Leadership Made In Switzerland

Le savoir-faire Suisse impose son leadership.» When, last fall, WISekey, the bespoke digital security solutions company, was named the sole provider of security software and services to the high tech sailing syndicate, Alinghi, as it prepares to defend its America’s Cup title against challenger BMW Oracle in 2010, Carlos Moreira, the Geneva firm’s founder and CEO, thought the timing was perfect. Switzerland, like most of the world’s leading countries and brands, was coming out of a tough 2009. The WISeKey-Alinghi partnership, Moreira reasoned, features two of Switzerland’s most futuristic technology-driven organizations. Their renewed partnership on the global stage is as good a signal as any to the world that Switzerland will bounce back, and technology Made In Switzerland was determined to be a force this new decade.

WISeKey has developed state of the art digital security systems to protect Alinghi’s operations, brand, and sailing technology during the race, a four-day 150-year-old event with a huge global following, which befits its status as one of the world’s oldest sporting events. The range of services WISeKey provides Alinghi includes securing and hosting Alinghi public and confidential websites, creating and distributing biometric-protected electronic tokens to privileged fans and staff, and creating digital signature certificates to eliminate environmental waste for the sailing syndicate’s transactions and facilities during America’s Cup. WISeKey will also provide secure accreditation devices for all Alinghi facilities, including electronic identity credentials and USB data storage security tokens.

“We are proud to be named the sole provider of Alinghi’s electronic security solutions," said Carlos Moreira. "WISeKey and Alinghi share many values. We both deeply believe in integrity, excellence, and the transforming possibilities of first rate technology. And we are proud of inheriting the tradition of building winning organizations in Switzerland.”
The deal was a coup for ten-year-old WISeKey. It repeats a success first achieved during the last America's Cup in 2007. The America’s Cup sailing regatta match has been around since 1857. It is the oldest active international sporting trophy, predating the modern Olympic games by 45 years. Featuring the best sailors and resources in the world, America’s Cup is often hotly contested and very popular. The 2007 edition in Valencia captured television global audiences of up to 200 million viewers and featured spying charges as boat syndicates grappled for an edge. The 2010 edition promises to be similarly seductive for global audiences, specially because of plans to reach the large multimedia audiences.

""We are delighted to welcome back WISeKey as a sponsor of Alinghi for the 33rd America's Cup. As a team we need to share and access confidential information, such as design data, so security is paramount in our campaign to try and win the America's Cup again. Our partnership with WISeKey will ensure that we have the optimum protection," says Ernesto Bertarelli, Alinghi team president.

During the next America’s Cup, WISeKey will release its next generation of WISeAuthentic products, including the WISeNetBook and eKey+, a portable secure ID device for organizations and executives with sensitive data to access. A typical eKey+ user site default page can require using fingerprint or password for access and the use of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) client authentication to establish the encrypted SSL sessions. WISeKey provides Alinghi to industries and governments with sensitive information, facilities, and online and off-line events they want to improve with user-friendly and strong identity authenticating products and services.

The eKey+ is a revolutionary concept newly developed by WISekey. It combines a biometric token device with the WISekey eSecurity Suite to produce secure and highly trustworthy interactions with web sites. In short, it’s the USB key James Bonds would use. That’s why it’s perfect for globe-trotting executives and their companies.

Designed to help increase trust between users and web services providers, the security software suite offers corporations, small business owners, and government agencies the ability to give their customers and colleagues access to their sensitive data to perform transactions from unsecured access points anywhere in the world.

The potential for fraud is a major hurdle for the evolution and growth of online commerce, according to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). Identity theft is defined as the process of using someone else’s personal information for your own personal gain. In 2008, identity theft worldwide increased by 22 percent from 2007. The Aberdeen Group has estimated that $221 billion a year is lost by businesses worldwide due to identity theft.

WISeKey’s position as a leader in electronic ID management systems to facilitate electronic transactions is very timely. A combination of popular culture trends, regulatory pressures, and e-commerce growth are pushing people to be up front about who they are on the web. Millions of users enshrouded in anonymity to engage in everything from bullying to spamming, identity theft to financial fraud are in trouble. To help users establish their identities online, and protect themselves against cybercriminals, software companies like WISeKey and web sites such as Amazon.com and eBay's PayPal require customers to enter personal information on a site-by-site basis. Yet there aren’t enough widely accepted identity standards—the online equivalents of a driver's license or Social Security Number. Even Facebook is reportedly attempting to get in on WISeKey’s market.

"There isn't anything built into the architecture of the Web that lets you verify who you are," Moreira says. “WISeKey’s systems have been the closest thing for ten years now.”

The eKey+ Biometric USB includes a digital certificate that provides the individual user with the highest level of security; enabling identification, authentication, secure encrypted communications (e-mail, web site etc.), electronic signatures, and non-repudiation. The WISeKey Personal eIDs associate the identity of a person with a digital identity. On one hand a digital ID, or eID can be viewed as Digital Passports that inform Internet users about their interlocutors' identity and ensure electronic messages confidentiality. A performance improvement is achieved through offloading compute intensive cryptographic operations from the computer to the external eKey+ Biometric USB.

Bootable eKey+ Biometric USB is the latest module in WISekey's family of hardware e-security products, built on the company’s extensive experience in working with banks and governments, organizations which have the most stringent security requirements.
With these innovations under its belt, the deal with Alinghi concluded a banner year for WISeKey. The World Economic Forum, the foundation renowned for its annual conference of CEOs and thinkers on ethics and globalization in Davos, on Sept. 10 named WISeKey a “New Champion” among "global growth companies at the forefront of demonstrating how entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology can relaunch global growth.” Also, in 2009, WISeKey announced plans to open operations in China and Abu Dhabi. Its partnerships in Brazil launched a pioneering program to use the web to generate popular support for carbon offsetting programs to help save the Amazon jungle.

Alinghi rejoins a cast of WISeKey clients and partners that are diverse and top of the line, including Microsoft, luxury watchmaker Hublot and IKEA. WISekey will be joining Hublot in this partnership with Alinghi. The move combines the breakthrough technology WISekey has developed for Hublot in the fight against counterfeiting with its work to counter corporate espionage for Alinghi. In the process, the three Swiss firms want the world to know that Switzerland is back as technology and global business powerhouse.And it is here to stay.